Hunter's Moon Part Two
"Hunter's Moon" Part Two is the sixty-fourth televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the fifty-first episode of Season 2. It originally aired on May 14, 1996.
Contents
Summary
Main Plot
Goliath's war with the Hunters continues in earnest after Angela nearly dies before sunrise, though she is saved by Elisa in time with CPR. When the gargoyles wake up the following night, they go out in pairs to search for the Hunters. Goliath goes to pick up Elisa, only to witness her kissing Jason Canmore from her window. More upset than ever, Goliath spots the Hunters' Airship, and enters with reckless abandon after convening with Brooklyn and Lexington. The three of them run into Demona, who is there to fight the Hunters herself, and all four gargoyles are captured and put in a holding cell by Jon and Robyn Canmore. Goliath and Demona form a truce, and the gargoyles escape after Goliath and Demona knock the two Hunters out, thinking they killed them. The three Hunters decide the best course of action would be to blow up the clocktower at night with a surgical strike, and do so after being led there by a tracer that Robyn had secretly planted on Goliath.
Subplots
Demona retrieves the Medici Tablet and is then chased by the Hunter Stuart Canmore during a 1495 flashback in Florence, Italy.
Elisa and Jason go to the warehouse where Demona stole the DI-7, and Elisa tells Jason vaguely about what happened to Angela, and they make a connection. Elisa confronts Owen at the site, who tells her that Xanatos had no part in Demona's or the Hunter's schemes.
Dominique Destine introduces Robyn to Sevarius at Nightstone Unlimited, who is there helping Demona construct the CV-1000 Carrier Virus for her plan to destroy all humans.
Elisa invites Jason to her apartment. Both are attracted to each other, and they kiss, but Elisa pulls back, torn about her feelings for Goliath. She tells Jason that there's someone else in her life but that they can't be together romantically, and Jason leaves.
Jon once again tries to convince Jason that the other gargoyles may not be in league with Demona, and that they were only after the Hunters because they hurt Angela. Jason berates him, however, and Jon ceases to argue.
Elisa walks into the station at the same time Robyn releases a bomb into the clocktower. Worried for her safety, Jason makes a grab for her upon his sky-sled.
The Story
Act One
Nighttime over Florence, Italy in the year 1495 A.D. A distant howl causes a bird to leave its roost and fly over the city. Standing atop a tower, Demona looks down at a nearby building. She uncloaks her wings, glides down, and crashes through a window. Looking around at the room, she snarls. She is alone. Demona bounds across the room toward a bookshelf. She begins tossing rows of books to the floor in her search for something. Annoyed at not finding it, she angrily growls. And then, behind some books, she spots what she has been seeking: The Medici Tablet! Picking it up she rejoices that she has found it after all the centuries. "Revenge is indeed a dish best served cold," she muses before taking her prize and exiting out of the window. Her quiet glide over the city is suddenly interrupted by a few small spears launched at her from above! Demona yells in surprise and manages to dodge the weapons. Still holding the Tablet, she tumbles downward but is able to regain control of her glide. A human piloting a hang-glider approaches her and attempts to knock her aside, but Demona is unharmed. "The Hunter!" she cries, identifying her assailant. "Aye, Demon," says the masked man, "It has taken me years to track you down, but it'll take only minutes to bring you down!" Demona laughs and tells him that he overestimates himself. The gargoyle dives down towards the city and the Hunter follows. As he pursues her, he readies another barrage of spears. Demona looks back and gasps in alarm. The Hunter fires and Demona only just manages to dodge again as the spears strike a nearby building. The chase continues around the city. Demona glides towards a river and the Hunter fires a third round of spears at her which splash into the water. Demona glides under a bridge and, realizing his craft is too large to follow, the Hunter veers upwards over the structure. Demona emerges from under the bridge and looks back pleased to have lost her foe. Then the Hunter suddenly dives in front of her and launches a net. Demona is ensnared and falls down into the river. The man lands his aircraft on the riverbank and is happy to have made his catch at last. He wades into the river to inspect his catch. "The hunt ends tonight!" Grabbing the net, he is shocked to find it empty. He yells in anger. Nearby, Demona emerges from the water unscathed and still holding the Medici Tablet. She climbs the masonry of a nearby bridge and the Hunter calls into the night. He tells "the Demon" this isn't over. His family has hunted her for five-hundred years. If he should fail, then his son will take up the hunt, and his son after that even if it takes another five-hundred years. "The hunt won't end until the last gargoyle dies!"
It is near dawn at the Clock Tower in Manhattan in 1996. Goliath holds Angela as the rest of the Manhattan Clan stands around their leader and his unconscious daughter. Goliath tells Angela to hold on a little longer. Dawn is approaching and the sun will heal her if she just fights a bit longer. Angela struggles to breath and then makes a raspy cough. She goes limp. Goliath, panicked, attempts to rouse her, but she is still. Elisa Maza comes up the stairs and sees the situation. She runs over to the gargoyles and demands that they give her room. Goliath lays Angela on the floor. Elisa begins performing CPR on the young gargoyle. The clan watches quietly as Elisa counts out chest compressions and administers mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Finally, Angela coughs and recovers enough to breath on her own. The gargoyles are amazed and overjoyed. Goliath tells Elisa that Angela is alive thanks to her actions. Elisa quips that CPR is the gift that keeps on giving before asking what happened to Angela. Goliath reports that they were attacked at the warehouse by three humans in black. Brooklyn adds that Demona hit the other location on the Upper West Side. Elisa notes that means Demona did survive the last encounter she had with the Clan. She looks to Goliath and asks if he knows who the humans were. Goliath stands and Broadway quickly moves to take his place at Angela's side. "They called themselves 'Hunters'," Goliath tells her, "But soon, they will be the prey. My prey." Sunlight creeps in through the giant clocks face and the Manhattan Clan turns to stone as Goliath clenches a fist in anger. Elisa quietly watches her sleeping friends.
Later, at the street-level entrance to the Clock Tower, a reporter and camera crew have assembled. Matt Bluestone exits the building and suddenly finds a bright light in his face and a microphone thrust in front of him. Jon Carter of WVRN introduces himself and asks for the detectives thoughts on all the gargoyle sightings lately. Bluestone feigns ignorance about gargoyles and the reporter points out that they have eye-witness reports of gargoyles breaking up the subway robbery two nights before. Bluestone tells the reporter that he doesn't believe in them. "Now UFOs..." he offers before explaining that Easter Island [[|moai|statues]] are based on "space aliens"! The reporter stammers out a response as Elisa and Jason Conover exit the building and observe the scene. Jason watches with a smile on his face, but Elisa drags him towards her car to make their way to investigate the crime scene. Jason asks her why she is in such a hurry. "Afraid that reporter was going to grill you about gargoyles?" Elisa laughs this off and says she just wants to get moving before the trail gets any colder. They both enter the car and Elisa speeds away through the city.
The car arrives at the Upper West Side facility, and Elisa parks. As she begins to get out, Jason stops her with a hand on her arm and softly asks for the real reason. Elisa sighs and admits that a very close friend was assaulted and nearly died. Jason is agitated and asks if they knew who did it. Elisa tells him no. Not yet. Elisa tells him "I feel so..." "Frustrated," Jason interrupts, "Helpless. Angry." Elisa agrees on all points. Moving closer to Elisa, Jason continues that she must really want to "nail the guy that hurt [her] friend." Elisa grimly agrees again. Jason tells her that he has been there. He's still there. He looks away wistfully. Elisa puts her hand on his and the two stare into each others eyes for a moment. Then Elisa pushes him away and asks him to check to point of entry with a laugh. "Right, chief," Jason says back with a smile.
Inside the facility, Owen Burnett examines the burned and destroyed interior. Elisa walks in, spots him, and asks if Burnett's boss is "cozy with Demona again." Owen says that, on the contrary, Mr. Xanatos has not had contact with Demona in a long time. Elisa tells him that Demona and "some hired muscle" tried to kill the gargoyles and nearly got Angela. She knows Xanatos is involved. Owen tells her that Xanatos has no animosity towards the gargoyles and, in fact, is grateful to Goliath for helping him to save his son, Alexander. Elisa doesn't believe any of this, but Owen tells her that what she believes is her own affair. He asks if he or Xanatos can be of any assistance and Elisa storms off saying that she's had enough "help" from Xanatos. Exiting the building, she comes across Jason kneeling near the door that Demona ripped off of the building the previous night. He calls Elisa over and she briefly recoils when she sees what he has found. He asks if she's ever seen anything like it and she lies to him and says she hasn't. Jason thinks they might be claw marks. "But what could be strong enough to leave claw marks ins solid steel?!"
Act Two
Act Three
Featured Characters and First Appearances
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Quotes
- "Revenge is indeed a dish best served cold." - Demona
- "Even if it takes another five-hundred years, the hunt won't end until the last gargoyle dies!" - Renaissance Hunter
- "They call themselves Hunters. But soon they will be the prey...my prey." - Goliath
- "Now UFOs...Did you know that Easter Island statues were modeled after space aliens?" - Matt Bluestone
- "I've been there. I'm still there." - Jason
- "I've got one of the best stocked refrigerators on the East Coast. With friends like mine it's safer." - Elisa
- "There's someone else."
- "Yes. No, not really...I mean, there's someone I care for deeply, but it would be impossible to get involved with him." - Jason and Elisa
- "I thought you were going to get Elisa?"
- "She...wasn't available." - Lexington and Goliath
- "I do not want escape. I want vengeance."
- "Perhaps you can have a little of both."
- "There's no such thing as a little vengeance." - Goliath and Demona
- "Touch those bars and you're a crispy critter." - Brooklyn
- "You did well, Goliath. Perhaps you and I are not so different after all."
- "Perhaps not." - Demona and Goliath
- "I think those other gargoyles were the Demon's enemies until we made ourselves their common foe. They might even have been our allies against her." - Jon
- "It must end tonight." - Jason
Tidbits
The deliberate echoes of the first season, and particularly "Awakening", continue. These include:
- Jason Canmore's question, "What could be strong enough to leave clawmarks in solid steel?" (echoing Elisa's similar query at the beginning of "Awakening: Part One").
- Goliath and Demona joining forces on board the Hunters' Airship (as a parallel to Goliath and Demona on board Fortress-1 in "Awakening: Part Four").
- Goliath again has a tracking device slipped on him, as in "Awakening: Part Three".
When Matt Bluestone is being grilled by Jon Canmore in his reporter's guise, he tries changing the subject to the stone heads on Easter Island, as a reference to "Sentinel" (evidently Elisa told him about a few of her Avalon World Tour adventures).
A deleted scene from this episode (cut for time considerations) had the door to the Hunters' airship, after being wrenched off its hinges by Goliath during his break-in, land on the sidewalk below in front of a startled Vinnie.
DVD Release
See Also
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